In April 2023, BC’s Representative for Children and Youth published “Missing: Why are children disappearing from B.C.’s child welfare system?” The report aims to begin exploring the question of why so many children and youth in care across B.C. become lost, go missing, or disappear from care. Recommendations focus on specific actions the Ministry of Children and Family Development can take to improve its policies and practices in this context, and also on addressing all child-serving systems, communities, and individuals to address this systemic problem.
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Recommendation 5: Pending the development and implementation of a congruent whole-of-system response that addresses the push and pull factors contributing to children and youth being lost or missing in the child welfare system, adopt interim practice guidelines that support social workers and care teams to meaningfully engage with and respond to children and youth during and after incidents of them going missing. Interim practice guidelines to be informed by research evidence and effective practices employed in other jurisdictions.-
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Recommendations for the Provincial Director of Child Welfare
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Recommendation 8: Immediately develop resources and guidelines for staff on the use of child-centred, person-first and identity-first, destigmatizing language when speaking to and documenting the lives of children and youth in the child-serving system.-
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